Machine for halving biscuits.



No. 675,284. Patented M a'y 2a, 190|. M. B. M'ATTHIESSEN.

MACHINE FOBHALVING BISGUITS.

(Application led Nov. 8, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHIAS BAHNE MAIITHIESSEN, OF NEUMNSTER, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR HALVING BISCUITS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 675,284, dated May 28, `1901..

Application tiled November 8,1900. Serial No. 35,833. (No model.)

perpendicularly to the axis of the cylinder.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my improved machine. f

Figure 1 represents a central vertical section on the line A A of Fig. 2 viewed in the direction of the arrows 1. Fig. 2 is a top view, partly in horizontal section, on the line B B of Fig. 1.

By means of a crankct the shaft b, the two bevel-wheels c, the shaft d, a plate c, and two star-wheels j' and g are set in rotary motion.

The star-wheels f and g are fixed to the vertical shaft d, with the arms of the upper wheel g directly over those of the lower wheel f, and the said star-wheel arms run between the prongs h and e' of a fixed discharging-fork located, respectively, between the plate e and the lower star-wheel f and the lid lc of the machine and the upper star-wheel g. The lid 7c is provided with a tube Z for introducing the biscuits. As soon as the two starwheels take the position shown in Fig. 2 the biscuit drops between the arms down upon the plate e, and in consequence of the rotation of the star-wheels it is carried around at once in the direction of the arrow m in Fig. 2, the thickness of the biscuit being less than the height between the lid 7c and the plate e. Three biscuits are shown at o o o in Fig. 2. In the space between the two star-wheels f and g a fixed knife s projects inward from the case c of the machine, which knife, when the star-wheels revolve, passes between them through the slit or space r, Fig. 1. The biscuits are thus driven by the star-wheel arms, as shown in Fig. 2, against the fixed knife s, as shown in Fig. 2, and cut across horizontally, and finally the two halves, by the action of the star-wheels and the forks h and t', are discharged from the machinein the direction of the arrow p.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe combination of the rotatable starwheels f, g, supporting-plate e; fixed knife s, located between the two star-wheels; and the fixed discharging-arms h and i below and o above the star-wheels respectively; substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I subscribe my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MATTHIAS BAHNE MATTIIIESSEN.

Witnesses:

J. RPKE, H. MLLER. 

